2007-07-29 15:13:20
There was something awe-inspiring about the scale of the disaster enveloping Central England yesterday. From Pangbourne on the Thames to Tewkesbury under the Severn, and a score of places besides, locals seemed overwhelmed by the deluge of television reporters that...
2007-07-17 06:15:46
Last week a breeze of excitement rippled through the bruschetta crowd. Certain Labour Party members, almost all BBC radio presenters and just about everyone I heard being interviewed on the subject, became animated by the possibility that Gordon Brown had...
2007-07-12 07:33:18
Why, asked my American friend yesterday, concerning the furore over Alastair Campbell?s diaries, ?are the English so up their own asses?? The thing seemed simple to him. In the US publication follows resignation as pension follows job. George Tenet, Director...
2007-07-06 15:36:53
It has long been one of the perverse talents of British middle-class activists to be able to devise campaigns which, instead of drawing attention to real grievances, divert attention away from them. I spent a lot of my early adulthood...
2007-07-05 05:58:11
On Sunday evening during an arts debate at the Manchester festival I heard about the artist who had wrapped himself up in felt and spent a few days in a box in a gallery with a coyote, peeing each morning...